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It is foggy in EHAM and this is very well simulated with also fog patches on the ground, very smooth!This question is probably asked more often, but why is that when you're above the clouds (with fog or normal overcast) that you still can "enjoy" the ground scenery instead of just clouds? Is this a FS limitation?Cheers, John

Hi there,I recently bought reality XP500. I just installed ASVE. so far so good.Now my clouds are represented like this http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/129076.jpgWhat's is going wrong?Ragards,Teun

Hi All,Do you know if it is possible to have two versions of AS on two separate Hard drives?I have FS installed on my C drive (which is a whopping 26gb) I have now purchsed and installed a second hard drive (F) with a clean copy of flight sim, this was only achieveable by following these changes:-renamed .exe. and .cfg files to FSold.exe and FS9old.cfg - this enables a second version of FS to be installed.This also produces a new .cfg for the clean copy of FS in your C:documents etc....Do you know if it is possible to have another version of ASV installed on the F: drive which will only work with the F: drive executable of FS?Kind RegardsPHIL

Just so I understand, I do not have the latest bulid. However, I have done the routine (months ago) of changing all the textures to DXT(?) by using the download and then running the ASV option. It appeared to work I thinkNow, with this new patch, do I have to get new textures (somewhere?) and run some type of routine?I run a midline system and I am looking for a way to help FPS, I understand that texture switching is one of the best ways to do that.I guess I am kinda of looking for the top 3 ASV options that give the biggest frame rate boost.

Hello,I do not use Active Radar.How do I remove all related data?Thanks in advance

Hello all!I just wanted to officially announce one of our works in progress: The AS-SDK (Software Developer's Kit).This SDK will allow several new integration possibilities:- Ability to easily fetch the weather parameters for any location- Ability to easily set weather parameters- Ability to add 3rd party cloud/sky/environment textures into the AE interface and/or ICS weather-influenced selection system- Ability to add other textures (such as water, lights, etc.) into the ICS weather-influenced selection system- Ability to read Precipitation/Radar data- Ability to control ASV events (refresh, options, effects)- Ability to add new ASV Scenarios including themes, templates …

I've installed and uninstalled about 4 times now so I'm not sure exactly where I'm at because something different seems to have happened every time. I did figure out that I needed to do something to temporarily get rid of the FS directory on the WideFS machine so the textures didn't all get loaded there. Once doing that here's what I did.When asked for the install location I selected C:activesky on the WideFS PC. Program installed and when I ran it I got a message that it appeared to be networked and to make sure the FS location was in the activesky.ini file. It wasn't. I assumed I did something wrong so I uninstalled and reinstalled.This time when I ran the program …

I just installed ASV E and tried to download the current weather and kept getting an ASV message: "there was an error downloading..try again" I fired up AS4.5 and it had no problem downloading the current weather, so I don't think the problem is with my internet connection. Is there something I need to do in ASVE? Mike

Hello All;I recently purchased Active Sky wxRE for FS9 (probably a mistake since it is now discontinued) from Flight1.com. This is the FS2002 product that was just upgraded for FS9. Flying via a FS9 generated flight plan, IFR (flown it numerous times before now) when using Active Sky Weather, ATC victor me into the airport area for my ILS landing. They victor me so way off the mark I never get to intercept the ILS glide scope. I end up flying away from the airport and then have to manually fly back to land it myself.When I use the same flight plan without Active Sky just using FS9 weather from the Internet everything works fine. I tried it with 4 different flight plans an…

Hi All, I don't really know if this has been covered, but i can't find it. Today i have installed the new ASV and my FS simply stopped working. It's not like other users have reported that it doesn't even load, my FS loads, but none of my previous saved flights work. When i try to load any of the flights FS stucks at 77% when it starts to load the weather and then it gives an error message asking me to restart it. When i eventually get a flight to load completely (with clear weather conditions, for example), when ASV detects and loads the weather it crashes again. If ASV is not loaded, FS holds on a little while longer but eventually will crash with an error from MyFSMenu…

Do I have to buy the upgrade?Rob "Holland&Holland" de Vries http://www.emotipad.com/emoticons/Flying.gif"To go up, pull the stick back. To go down, pull the stick back harder"

I have RC6 currently installed and was wondering if I can just install the official release over current installation, or do you reccommend an uninstall first?Thank-You,Ted

I have RC6 installed.. do I need to download the official release or is RC6 the same build as the officially released upgrade?Thanks,

HI,I have the following files now on my system as backups:-Main install ASV 95MbASV Upgrade 94MbASV Su1 924kASV Su2 970kPlus the new Enhanced UpgradeDoes the enhanced upgrade incorporate SU1 & 2 and therefore can I delete these files.ThanksDrayton

Just wondering how much has changed from the last beta version to the official release. Since I already installed the beta is there much need to install the full release version???Thanks...

I just installed ASVe on the WideFS client where I was running the last update of ASV. Install went fine, but loading AS produced the following message: "Initialization Error reading files...Please verify your files or re-install."I have been running ASV with no problems since the day it was released, installing updates as they came. I waited on this one until it was out of beta, precisely in order to avoid the problem I am facing now: something that worked well before doesn't work at all now.How can I verify files, and does re-install mean reinstall the new patch or the whole program. If it means the whole program, do I need to install all of the updates, or just the mos…

Hi,I have just installed ASV Enhanced upgrade and it now says I have Build 367 but Hifi sim site says latest build b366 so do I need to reinstall upgrade.John..

Good day all.After I installed ASV I no longer can get the FDC's checklists to start.I have tried to change the hot keys but this resulted in shutting down the sound and other settings.Is this a system problem (mine) or is there a easy solution that will solve this problem? Thank you,Carel

Hi!I downloaded and installed the "Texture Sets" during the release of the "original" ASV 5. They didn't change, do they? So I don't need to download and install them again. Correct?Greetings,Tom

Hey guy's! Love your Weather program! I have ActiveSkyV, and when Flying at like 30,00ft, I have the weather program running, it is on Online Mode, so i get live updates whern i Fly. Now When Flying, and the Wind Direction changes in-flight, it's kind of Viloent?! The plane like lunges to the Side, and the Airspeed Falls alot, and the plane has to pick up speed again beacuse of the wind changes. I have a Registerd Copy of FSUIPC, Now is there A setting that I missed in Either FSUIPC, or ActiveSky?? I always had this problem from the begining!. Maybe I half to turn something off, or On?? I really love this Program, and am Just trying to get a little smoother Transition fro…

I know this is covered in the manual but I am confused by the sentence "Texture changes may require a restart of FS2004 to take effect".I always start at the same airfield EGLK in the UK for VFR flying, when I start ASV before FS2004 it always defaults to DGTK for the current weather download. The manual recommends loading a flight plan, but for flying circuits I don't use a flight plan so I tend to load EGLK to EGLK at 1000 ft.Can someone please explain the correct way to start ASV and FS2004 so I get the maximum benifit from ASV and its textures when flying from EGLK. (BTW I always use online real world weather and I have ICS + Random sky/env selected in options).Is th…

Any help would be appreciated. When I load up FS9 using Active Sky the surface winds are usually showing between 35 and 50 knots (viewing with Shift-z), sometimes even toppling a light single engine airplane. These numbers arent even close to what the metar report for the location shows. I have tried reinstalling Active Sky and that does not cure the problem. I have not had this problem before, it just came up today. I have not made any changes. It occurs with both default and add on aircraft.Any ideas?

Please take a look at the following tips as many common questions/issues are addressed here!ActiveEnvironment Tips:---------------------------------------------------------------Previous Users of FSW should Uninstall Fs Sky World 2004.Afraid to loose your existant texture or want to back them later?When you install ASV, it will backup your entire FS9Texture folder to Flight Simulator 9ModulesASVActiveEnvironmentFS_Texture_Backup-By default FS9 will not display any AE textures until you submit some via the AE interface or enable ICS or random startup modes. To use the Mip Map and DXT texture conversion options: Download the FS9 Imagetool which is required for this process…

I have installed both the 512x512 textures and the 128x128 textures. I can convert them to the mips but when I try to enable the DXTs I get and error that states "problem read this texture configuration... you must install texture sets before using them. The 512x512 texture set is available at ..... you know the rest :)"I tried the suggestions about deleting the dxton something file and making sure that the folds are archived. Neither of these things helped. I have the newest version installed B366.Thanks, Dan K

Since using AS I note I have to toggle RENDER TO TEXTURE to fix a sort of ghost image that occurs in sections of the display. It's like there is a residual image from a former view that flashes to the foreground while clicking on this area or that of the VC or 2D panel. When I check (or uncheck) RENDER TO TEXTURE, the problem resolves, but it's kind of a hassle to have to stop the flight and go into display and toggle this setting. Seems to have started since AS was installed. GeForce 6800GT OC. AGP Texture Acceleration is also enabled in DirectX 9.0c.If anyone knows of a cure for this I'd love to hear it.Noel